Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative
by
Yael Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century. Its point of departure is Zionism's obsessive preoccupation with its haunting "primal scene" of sacrifice, the near-sacrifice of Isaac, as evidenced in wide-ranging...